The Wahpeton times., 1887-05-12
THURSDAY, MAY 12. 1887.
Mr.. Barnes Outline.

Mr.. Barnes Outline.
MR.. EDITOR: That sermon Of
mine which you "would not do your
readers the injustice to report" l
desire, after all, to outline in your
columns. And surely after so frank
a disclaimer on your part as that
above indicated of all sympathy
with me in my views, you can be in
no danger of loosing caste by allow
ing me, over my own signature, the
privilege asked. Why 1 would do
this is easily explained. I am in
frequent receipt of letters, some
with and others without signature,
some in good and others in bad
English, some respectful and gen.
tlemanly in tone and others couched
in the vulgarest and profanest of
terms, but all denouncing the sup
posed position of that sermon, and
not few of them threatening me
with personal violence on account of
it. The supposed position, l say, for
not one of these letters rightly
states it. What they say said l
did not say, and what l said they
do not say said. 1 owe it to the
better part Of these writer's, some
of whom are known to me as gen.
tlemen, to correct their mistake.
Besides, l know not how large a fol-
lowing they may have. Presumably
it is large. True, they might have
learned my views at first hand, but
not choosing to avail themselves of
the opportunity. they have taken
them atsecond, and third, and fourth
hand; and more, they have gone
outside the record and dragged up
from the very CUTTERS of the
streets the rumors, insinuations and
calumnies which, catching ut a
straw, the drowning man of the
Globe but recently published. And
likely, Mr.. Editor, the fact that you
was seen with thumb and finger in
tight compression on opposite sides
of your professional nose when in
the presence of my sermon, con-
firms the prepossessions of many
that in some way or other all is not
right with me. Why, unless I am
careful, 1 shall lose faith even in
newspapers! Look again at the
Globe in one of it's premon itory
symptoms of utter collapse. After
launching forth it's column Of cal
umny and libel--almost the only edi
torial Of length it was ever known
to produce; after sententiously warn
ing me that if 1 dared say more l
should get more; after reporting in
full, by the hand of paid and COM
petent stenographer, the sermon in
which had advertised that should
and in which 1 certainly did say
more, with the avowed purpose of
publishing the same and thence
continuing the war; after repeated
and prolonged consultations with
people, some very wise and some as
verify otherwise, including the law
yer and the politician, the two in
one or the one in two, according as
you are a mind to take it, with
others Of like affinity after sending
to far off states, and rummaging
the county records, and buttonhol-
ing everybody in town known or
supposed to have had dealings with
me. and notably that one who as in
stinctively turns to gossip and tat
tling as the "sow that is washed to
her wallowing in the mire,' whose
well-known generosity and general
manners, indeed, bespeak those of
the sty-all whose bones are indo-
lence, his blood cowardice, his breath
perfidy and his touch moral leprosy;
after doing all this, l say, thoroughly
to reinforce itself for that other and
promised onslaught, it sneaks out in
its next issue without my sermon,
without reply, and without the
one thing manly possible to it in the
circumstances, retraction, and
blandly says that since I have vir-
tually conceded in my sermon all it
has alleged against me it is relieved
from the necessity of saying more
tself well knowing that so far from